Hi Jeff
I set up a test site where I replicated the key features from your site, and I'm happy to report I have it working, so let me quickly run through the steps.
- I have a CPT called "Performances".
- I have a custom Taxonomy called "Collections" which is assigned to Performances.
- I have added custom taxonomy fields of "Collection Name" and "Collection Image" to the Collections taxonomy.
- I created some sample content for each of the above.
- I created a View that I have called "Collection terms" which I am going to use to display the Collection Name and Collection Image on my collection archive pages.
This View is a taxonomy view, which displays Collections, and it has a query filter which is a Taxonomy term filter where "Taxonomy is set by the page where this View is inserted". So when we are on a collection archive page such as mysite.com/collection/outside it will only return the "outside" term from our taxonomy.
In the loop output section I can use the "Fields and Views" button to insert the shortcodes to output my term custom fields for the current term (e.g. the image for "outside").
My somewhat crude loop output looks like this:
<wpv-loop>
<p>Term name: [types termmeta='collection-name'][/types]</p>
[types termmeta='collection-image' size='full' align='none'][/types]
</wpv-loop>
Now I put this together in my Layout. I think you know how to do this already.
Just one observation, when looking at your site, the Collection Archive you created, you have added a Query filter to "Select posts with taxonomy: Collections slug in one of those set by the URL parameter wpvcollection" but I think this may be redundant. On a taxonomy archive page the posts that appear on that page are for the term which appears in your url in the format you have already described, e.g. mysite.com/collection/outside, you don't need to add an additional filter for that.
So I have a layout called "Collections archive" which is used to customise the Collections archive.
In my simple test site I have just two rows.
The first is a cell where I insert my Collection terms View.
The second has the Layouts archive cell for the Collection Archive.
When I visit mysite.com/collection/outside I see the collection image and name, followed by the list of matching performance posts.
Hopefully if you reproduce the above you'll see the same.